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We're Going to Knott's Scary Farm Whether You Can Handle It or Not
Allison and Alex dive into the complexities of navigating Halloween theme park plans with partners who may have different thrill tolerances. They share a terrifying story about a restraint that clicked during a drop tower ride, along with reflections on theme park safety.
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I think that, like it's easy when you have, when you're in a relationship, you get excited and you want to do all the fun things. But he and I talked.
Speaker 2:Hi everyone, if you're just tuning in, We've been having a conversation not recording about our upcoming Halloween theme park. Halloween activities.
Speaker 1:And my boy is a ride warrior like myself. He also worked at Six Flags, like myself. Oh, I forgot that, hi, stanley so he likes a ride, which is very exciting. Now I will say and he's definitely listening to this that I believe you. I want to preface this by saying babe, I believe you, but I am still very nervous.
Speaker 2:That he's not actually up to your speed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess it's not that he's not actually up to your speed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess it's not that he's not, but like how much does he?
Speaker 1:I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna pass out panic attack. It's just, I am not. But megan is, but but see I if, even if he's your speed, I'm cool with that yeah because you still love a theme park. Yeah, you will ride things I just six flags rides.
Speaker 2:Now that I've been on them as a like younger person and an adult, that the type of jerkiness of those roller coasters really is. I don't know that. I'm built for it, because here's a difference that I see in us because I'm so much shorter, my head fully bangs against the over the head thing For sure, and when we went to Six Flags last year I was very headache nauseous.
Speaker 1:So, yes, and also you went with your boy and you guys like that was your first time doing that together and we had limited time with him so we were.
Speaker 2:There was no stopping, which, like I think, when you go on a ride and then you walk somewhere else or you grab a drink or whatever and you have like a good, like 20 something minutes in between. But we were literally like off the ride onto theo the next. Walk one minute onto the next and my head never got to recover.
Speaker 1:And I will also say that, like there are some rides at Six Flags, I do not do or like.
Speaker 2:Oh, I did go on one. I wasn't supposed to go on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, x2. That's a shame, because it was like the first or second thing you did.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But no, all this to say that I believe him but I'm a little nervous.
Speaker 1:You need to this has been told to me in the past that was a lie both times and it's like it's fine because, no, I understand that I am, I am the minority, me to like roller coasters this much and to not be really affected by them and to be so excited. And I don't need it to be that level. But like, I believe him, but I am a little bit like anxious to go do it so that I can see how much, once and for all, I think it'll be fine.
Speaker 1:Because nothing makes me more anxious, too, than, like in my last experience, was told yeah, I love roller coasters, yeah, I love haunted things. That wasn't the case. No shade.
Speaker 2:Haunted. Oh, I didn't know. That was told to you.
Speaker 1:Yes, so I took him to Fright Fest and then we were on the roller coaster and I was like, oh my God, so fun, I look over and I thought he was passing away. So like that also caused me anxiety. Like I never want you to roller coaster twisted colossus. I don't remember that one. I think I went on it, but I don't remember which is which. It's only the thing that's tattooed on my arm. Um, it's the wooden, and it's the wooden and steel one, the first one we all rode together I think, you go twice yeah, I think I liked that yeah I don't really remember.
Speaker 2:Okay, it's the best ride in the park um we were just talking about uh, going on the power tower yes, so not scary.
Speaker 1:Not berry farm aka not scary has a power tower equivalent. A power tower. If you're familiar with the midwest, at cedar point, ohio, america's roller coast, there is a rock and roller coast right, there is a launch slash drop ride, which you all, I'm sure, familiar with. It's called power tower. It's four to shoot you up to, uh, drop you but it knots, it's just three and it's called scream, which is confusing because at six flags there's a roller coaster called scream okay it's not that confusing to me, but maybe to you or you the listener, um, but also I gotta say someone had recently died on one before we went last time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was a very tall, large boy yes, he was not fit for the restraints.
Speaker 1:They should not have let him on. And he slipped out and that's terrifying. And at Cedar Point this summer, one of the cables snapped on the power tower but it's a hydraulic system, right? So like it didn't like drop, you didn't plummet.
Speaker 2:What happened?
Speaker 1:They just brought him back down and closed the ride.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm sure we told this on the podcast when it happened, but just to recap, we went on this last a couple years ago we were not doing this podcast when it happened were we doing the other one?
Speaker 1:no I can't imagine we didn't talk about this somewhere oh, maybe we did like in the cut down one, the cut down podcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah maybe okay, well, we can just say it again. Just recap we are at knott's berry farm and scary farm was it a scary when we went, or was it regular?
Speaker 1:was it a scary, was it?
Speaker 2:a scary um, yeah, it was not scary, it was scary and we go on this and it's the one that go took us up slow and then dropped us quickly and you know, we get in and the guy's going around and he's checking our restraints and everything. And he comes over to me and I have it pulled down and it's, I've checked it, it's not going anywhere. And he comes up to me and he gives me an extra push in and it clicks and I was like, okay, like I feel very secure now alex is to my left.
Speaker 2:I don't know who's to my right, haley.
Speaker 1:Don't know.
Speaker 2:Unsure and everything seems fine. And then we start going upwards and the I feel a click.
Speaker 2:And it it does it let out one one click and Alex and I just stare at each other and we get to the top and in my mind I was like I'm about to die and all of my friends are about to witness this. And Alex and I just stared in each other's eyes as the drop happens and I was thinking like in your mind, were you just like she's? Like I mean, there she goes. She's about to fly out and I'm just watching her.
Speaker 1:I don't I don't, I definitely was like you heard the click too, yeah I think my logic brain was like okay, well, it's not unclicking anymore and, worst case, the strap is still connected, the buckle okay so like, if anything, it would just go totally loose and go as long as the belt would go, but then that still would be some wiggle room for you to like, slip out of which is what happened to that guy? Yeah so I think there was a little bit of me that was like obviously she's fine, and this is spooky.
Speaker 1:And then there was definitely a part of me that was like and how traumatic.
Speaker 2:If this is real, if all of my friends just have to see me splat awful awful. Do you think that if that did happen and I somehow survived, I would own the park now?
Speaker 1:yes, or is there?
Speaker 2:something in the ticket that I buy. That's like. You can't sue us for this.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, Because, like there is an acceptance of safety that comes along with going in. I think they would. It would be like the mayor giving a key to the city to someone you would be like I don't know.
Speaker 2:you'd like lead the Knott's Berry Parade every year, I would get a lot of money.
Speaker 1:I would sue them for a lot of money and they'd rename Scream to the Allison, the Allison.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't want that. I want the whole park.
Speaker 1:That's right, allison Land.
Speaker 2:Allison Land.
Speaker 1:Alice in Land Love Cute.
Speaker 2:But anyway, we're going to go there, we're going to Knott's Scary Farm.
Speaker 1:And to finish, what all of this was from the beginning was to just say that we were talking about it, because there was a time when I was like not scary farm, fright fest, like hit all these things, and really all I want to do this year is not scary farm and a pumpkin patch like a real nice one I want that because that first year I made you guys go to the hayride I loved it.
Speaker 2:It's my favorite time of year.
Speaker 1:I made you go to not scary I would like to go to the apple orchard too I want to go to the one that emily and I went to. Hey, m is that so cute. We just north or south far, that's all I know and we went on a day like I would plan it better because it was so busy. We actually spent more time trying to park than we actually spent doing things there, but it was so cute you could pick apples have apple cider I that's my favorite thing to do?
Speaker 1:I want to do that so I want to do it okay well welcome back to the a-list podcast with allison and alex. She's allison, he's alex, he really just went for that yeah, I wasn't ready, but you kind of got it, you figured out.
Speaker 2:I did, stanley looking so tired, and I'm also tired.
Speaker 1:Me also tired too. I got up and went to the gym early. Wow, how was your. Memorial Day, weekend, labor Day, god.
Speaker 2:It was fine. I didn't do anything on Saturday. I needed to really like relax and regroup because I knew that Sunday would be a very long day.
Speaker 1:Why.
Speaker 2:The dodgeball tournament that you made me sign up for, that you quit Write that. Okay, yeah, and it was a long day. I think we started at 10 and then I think I was done at like three to 30.
Speaker 1:What I kind of appreciate is like I didn't realize till I found out that Karina had to back out because of a shoot. I didn't realize that it was. They've condensed it to one day, Cause last year it was two days.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did like that.
Speaker 1:The two days.
Speaker 2:No, that it was one day yeah.
Speaker 1:I was like, oh well, that's that, that's nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was like a round Robin, Same thing. The what we did on the first day was from like 10 AM to. I think it's because there was way less teams.
Speaker 1:Were there way less teams, yeah, really yeah. So where did you guys place? Where did you?
Speaker 2:end up placing. At the end of the round Robin, I think that we were either second to last or third to last. Okay, because we it was pretty rough because we had to play down two players the first, um, most of the whole round robin, I think all but maybe one game was we were down two and we were getting crushed, okay. And then there was actually like a whole thing with, um, one of our captains and with the person who runs, oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Because it's just like it is annoying when people sign up to be in a rec league that they know that they're a pro better they're advanced yeah, and it is a thing where, like there are people coming from out of town to play in this tournament. It's not just an la thing, like it's a national thing. And if you are traveling all this way, like I'm sure you do want to play in both things and I can understand if you are meant to be in rec and you then play up in advance.
Speaker 2:So you get to play in both things and I can understand if you are meant to be in rec and you then play up in advance so you get to play twice, yeah, but if you are an advanced player, you in a whole team of advanced players, then to play down and rec just so you can play twice, yeah, is annoying, and there was specifically one team that everyone they, they cause a couple of our players, a couple of our people went to the day before which was the advanced day and um watched and they were like we literally saw all these people play yesterday.
Speaker 1:That's frustrating.
Speaker 2:And then they were playing us and they were crushing us and so like that was an annoying thing. So then they ended up allowing us to have a sub, because it was like you weren't allowed to have subs yeah, yeah it's my hair.
Speaker 2:it feels like my hair is coming. Okay, yeah, you're not allowed to have subs, okay. So we were like, because josh was like I could play if, if, and they were like, no, you can't, you have to be registered. And because we had lost so much, I think that they were just like like there was a guy who was refereeing that they let play with us. Okay, he actually was pretty good and helped us out a lot, so we played like one game with him and then it went to the single elimination tournament at like 1.30. We started doing that, yeah, and we actually won two matches in that.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:Two or one, yeah Two. And then we in our third we played Markel's team and it was actually not that crazy, like we kind of had a back and forth, but then they ended up beating us and then we were done. But I had I sent Alex a video, epic, I uh had a back and forth, but then they ended up beating us okay, and then we were done.
Speaker 2:But I had I sent alex a video epic I, uh, since josh was there, he was recording but he had he like, had forgotten to record in, zoomed out so you could see the whole court. So there's a few on the video. I got a couple people out. Before that I had an epic game, you guys, guys, yeah, and it came down to me and someone on one person, me against one person on their team, and we had a big showdown. Well, actually there was four people against three of us. I got out of those last four people, I got out three of the four which is crazy.
Speaker 1:He did catch on video.
Speaker 2:You getting the second to last yeah, I got him on the leg on the almost foot. That was whoa. Who am I?
Speaker 1:and then the last person.
Speaker 2:We were like going back and forth and then we had a big um where we threw it at the same time and the balls hit each other in the air and then, as I'm going to grab my ball, he was faster on the the trigger and got me while I was trying to get my ball. But it was really. I was like wow. I looked at the video and I was like, oh my gosh, I'm so athletic uh, so that was. I felt good about myself, yeah good, but we did lose and was there.
Speaker 1:Like uh did david archuleta perform again, I didn didn't go. Was that a thing though?
Speaker 2:Maybe I have no idea they did have an ending party like that. So, I'm sure there was someone, but I didn't hear.
Speaker 1:Probably for the best, because I got COVID from it last year. You guys, I didn't. Oh, I did.
Speaker 2:I know, but I was standing next to you. I didn't stay the whole time though.
Speaker 1:Well, you also didn't get assaulted.
Speaker 2:Who's oh right Right.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Right. Yeah yeah, yeah, I evaded that yeah. How was your trip.
Speaker 1:My trip was great, Guys. I was in Palm Springs relaxing.
Speaker 2:Did you see any of my friends?
Speaker 1:No, we didn't go out Like we went out to brunch one day and then breakfast on the way out. Other than that, though, the house and the pool were so nice and we were just making so how hot was it? I mean the first Friday and Saturday not so bad. Sunday was unreal, it was like 115.
Speaker 2:It's insane.
Speaker 1:But like it is crazy how 101 feels very different than 115.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like it's still hot, but you can tell the difference.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But like I'm a water baby, so like I was night swimming, I was in the hot tub, I was all over the place, but it was good. We watched a couple documentaries. Um made so much content for only fans. If you guys want the link, drop, drop your comment. Um, no, if you guys want the link, drop your comment. No, but it was actually. It was really relaxing and I was actually relaxed. I love that, and I am I always feel better coming back from a Palm Springs trip.
Speaker 2:You do like Palm Springs, could you live there?
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I just like I can't.
Speaker 1:It's too hot I don't know why I like it. I mean, I love the desert, though I always have it's too hot. I don't know why I like it.
Speaker 2:I mean I love the desert, though I always have. That's why I love Vegas. I mean I could live there in the winter, but that's not the point.
Speaker 1:No, that's not the point. I like the hot season, it's just so.
Speaker 2:Walking outside. It's just insane. Yeah, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1:But also I will say I've never gone to a gay bar, never and so many we went out. We went out on saturday morning. We went to the antique shops to do some antiquing and wow, is it gay but yeah, I'd never been to that side of the dispensary like lounge dispensaries no, no, no, but I'd never seen that side of palm springs.
Speaker 1:The antique shops are like kind of like down some back roads and like are like warehousey but it was so cute we saw so many cute things and then, um, where we ended up going to brunch on sunday, I had like I've never seen that street before, which is crazy because I've gone to palm springs so often near chill bar oh, just off on the side like I didn't know. There was like a whole street of like gay bars. Yeah, the one that's like hands and like all these places. I'd never two cans?
Speaker 2:yeah, I've seen. The reason I've been to most of them is because my friends have performed there. Yeah, two cans is a fun place. Did you go?
Speaker 1:no, we didn't go to any you would have liked no, we just went restaurants. But so like the part of town I've been to is like where, when we went to 4th of July's ago, like where the Starbucks and the H&M, like that mall area is, and like the two block radius, that's like as much as I've ever done in the downtown. So this was the first time I was like really in the downtown.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And even though we didn't go into any of those, it was still like oh wow, there's so much more for me to explore here, and I've been to Palm Springs probably 50 times since I have moved here. Yeah, and that was like the first, because I just rarely ever leave a house.
Speaker 2:Yeah, when you Airbnb a nice house, yeah, you want to take advantage of the pool.
Speaker 1:Sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And also like if you're in an Airbnb, like it is more likely that you're have like go to the store, have food, eat there. Maybe we did say like maybe we'll go in a month or so and do like a weekend in one of the boutique hotels and then then explore like that, because like yeah, you should stay in the one, that's like by.
Speaker 2:Oh well, that'd be fun, yeah, oh, it's not really a boutique, I guess the one that's behind h&m, but it's a cute one.
Speaker 1:It's kind of no, it is kind of boutiquey and it's not that restaurant like right in the yeah, what is that hotel called?
Speaker 2:rowan, the rowan that's not what I was thinking, oh the one right behind h&m is called rowan the rowan is it owned by someone else? I?
Speaker 1:don't know. There's also the casino, one that's like is that the way you're thinking of?
Speaker 2:no, this one is the one you're thinking of. No, this one the one I'm thinking of. I know they have. It's a chain of hotels, but I do think that they are boutique style.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Kempton. Oh, it's a Kempton. Yeah, Kempton Rowan.
Speaker 1:The Rowan yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but Kempton is a.
Speaker 1:Like a Marriott. A brand, yeah, yeah it's such a cute hotel that would be a cute way to stay and it's right there.
Speaker 2:You can walk down there they have a good rooftop.
Speaker 1:I think that's what I was going to say. They've got a really nice restaurant.
Speaker 2:That restaurant is nice.
Speaker 1:And then the rooftop is cute Rooftop yes, and it's right there within walking distance has done a lot of exploring in Palm Springs and he was like, oh my God, there's so much you need to see, yeah, I was like well. I think it would be hard for me. It is hard for me when you're putting out for a house to like spend any time in the city.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Only because it's like we're paying for this house. That's supposed to be like a resort style stay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think too, when you have, when it's like a group of people in a house, it's just easier to stay there than like rounding up.
Speaker 1:Sure, everyone to go to yeah, so next time, whatever, I'll do some more exploring in the downtown area. But he he took me to h&m because I said that was my one of my favorite h&m it is a really good h&m.
Speaker 2:It is they lot of stuff.
Speaker 1:It is, and he took me there and it was. I didn't buy anything but it was cute. Okay, it was cute to walk around.
Speaker 2:What I was going to say. Oh, this is like side note. But, speaking of houses, that house for rent is still available. We are mean.
Speaker 1:Listen, let's talk again in January.
Speaker 2:It's definitely not going to be available in all the way in january. Who knows, if it is, it has something wrong with it maybe the price.
Speaker 1:I just want you to live in my neighborhood and he is open to sherman oaks. He was like sherman oaks, he could see he has a friend that's trying to get us to consider culver city, which, like, would be fun. May emily's there. Emma is there. You're maybe moving in that area, but I guess it's not that bad because, emma, I asked her about her commute to work and she said that on bad traffic days it's 35 minutes. On not bad traffic days it's like 2025.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's not that bad. This is so LA talk, but you take the 10, right, correct yeah.
Speaker 1:Um, so I don't know. We'll see. Cause now Emily is trying to. Emily's trying to get back to the Valley, but she's like the only way I'll get Brian out to the Valley is if they rent a house that has a pool, which like fair. Brian grew up. He's a. He's a Manhattan beach boy.
Speaker 2:So like, yeah, he's a beach kid and I want to get out of the heat.
Speaker 1:I want to be anywhere, but here You're like. Get me away from all this hot.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Culver City would be closer to the airport.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Closer to a beach.
Speaker 2:You guys should check out.
Speaker 1:Oh right.
Speaker 2:It's so cute.
Speaker 1:My ex does live in Culver City, though Like really close to Emily.
Speaker 2:That's why you should check out where I just said.
Speaker 1:You're right. It's not that we went to him, but I want to take you there.
Speaker 2:It's so cute, it's the best, it's so cute.
Speaker 1:I mean, I've been there but I don't. Maybe I don't know the specific area you're talking about downtown Culver area. It's cute as hell.
Speaker 2:There's a home state. There's a home state everywhere. Now I know there is there really is Great for that yeah.
Speaker 1:Have you been to the Bakery that's like by the higher path?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Is it cute?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we just took um. A few months ago we took Josh's um aunt and uncle there.
Speaker 1:And what's the vibes? They're all very different.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's um. The inside is very loud. Don't recommend sitting inside.
Speaker 1:Peeking at it. It gives me the kind of the vibes of the one on third street, like by the grove. Yeah, it is similar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a bunch of outdoor seating and like food was the same, like it's. Like it's what you expect from all of them yeah but the inside seating, it's so loud oh, got it, it's like echo chamber, like you cannot hear the person across from you oh, good to know so when we took them there, I was like we have to sit outside, like it's, because the point was like to converse and like catch up or whatever, yeah, so I immediately it was like don't sit us inside please, under no circumstance. But yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1:Okay, great.
Speaker 2:Recommend.
Speaker 1:Um, so I was going to talk to you about this off the pod, but we can do it on.
Speaker 2:I'm scared.
Speaker 1:No, we'll talk about it off the pod. It's absolutely boring information to share. No, no, it's nothing bad, it's just like we don't need to talk about this, but on that I was going to say that I don't mind the Glendale one, but after you go to the third street location of Bakri, yeah, the Glendale, oh, glendale, glendale, glendale. Glendale's. In the Americana it's like on the backside of the mall oh. Have you not been to that one?
Speaker 2:Yes, I have that one's the worst. Yeah, it's the first I was thinking of the Silver Lake one. The Silver Lake one is very cute.
Speaker 1:I haven't been to that one.
Speaker 2:It's very. It's bigger and very. I feel like I'm in a tree house when I tour, it just sucks to go to silver layer true true, true, um, but anyway yeah, well, that should be the next one that we go to I just went.
Speaker 1:I went to the other path the other day and I saw it and I was like what?
Speaker 2:yeah, it is weird because it's like there's a, there's like a little boutique store and then in the middle it's. It doesn't make sense the layout, but when you walk in it does make sense. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And our server was actually like recognized josh and he was like they were broey and I don't know. He was like come back anytime.
Speaker 2:We haven't been recognized josh he had seen him somewhere, like literally, they both were like you look familiar, and he was like you look familiar. And then they like broed out, and I don't know how ever connect the dot yeah, I just don't remember what the dot was like they met in life or like he saw josh on tv.
Speaker 2:Okay, they met in life. Oh, speaking of good restaurants, I just went to a good restaurant, um, that I've been wanting to go to it. I had seen it on a, a youtube ad for like restaurants in la you went because I watched your story.
Speaker 1:I was like, babe, we have to go here. No, it's incredible. It looked really cute I, so they there.
Speaker 2:I kept getting these ads on youtube for like these restaurants in la you were influenced. I was influenced. Wow, um, and this one it was. It's isa ray has I don't know if she is the owner or part owner or what. She's involved in this restaurant. It's called somerville. What's happening? Is there a bug?
Speaker 1:yeah, what kind of bug it kind of looks like a tit. No, it's not what what?
Speaker 2:why are you petting it gross? Oh, it's just a little bug. Yeah, I'm chills, okay, okay, isa ray yeah, I think she is like an owner, a part owner or something okay, and it's called somerville. It's in like um, they, they say south central la, it's like north inglewood there's like a name for this neighborhood.
Speaker 2:I just don't remember what it's called, but it's like when you look at on the map, you inglewood, and then it's like the very north part of it, whatever that means. But um, it is so cute, it has live music. There's like jazz musicians playing, it's very like cultural and just like just the vibe it looks really gorgeous, so, and the food looks pretty bomb I got the fried chicken sliders with caviar with caviar and that's like the one thing they talked about. On this, I was fully influenced on this ad that.
Speaker 2:I saw um fried chicken caviar sliders. He got this like um that. I saw um fried chicken caviar sliders. He got this like um lasagna, like I think it was like colored green lasagna he said it was like the one of the best things he's ever eaten in his life. The brussels sprouts were delish, drinks were delish. The only thing is like the service was like a little slow but.
Speaker 2:And it wasn't even that full like of a restaurant which, when I looked at the reviews, that is something that was on there. It was like our server, like we got seated, and then I don't know, I feel like five minutes went by and then a server walked by and was like, oh, I'll be right back to get your guys's order, and then I feel like a very long time went by I don't know how long, but it was like to the point where we're like, did they forget about us? And I had, I like, tapped someone as they walked by and I was like, hey, is there any way like we can order, or I'm not sure who our like waiter is? And they were like, oh, yeah, we'll get someone, and then, like it took a few minutes for that person to come over and then, once, once they came over, then we had like consistent service, but it was like a little bit of a weird start.
Speaker 2:I don't, I don't know, I don't know when they opened, but very like such a vibe, it felt like I don know. It felt like old and everyone was kind of dressed up.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 2:It was like it was really cute. I love it Highly recommend.
Speaker 1:Well, I have another recommendation too.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:On Thursday we took um one of Chad's friends, one of my newer friends. Her name is Shelly. We took her to the Cara hotel where's that? It's in las feliz. I didn't even know like it existed like with the c or k c with a c and there's a restaurant and the restaurant is around the pool and it looks like you're in like a moroccan oh nice like palace.
Speaker 1:It's so pretty and the food was so good and it was an insane martini I am, you and your martinis guys, but anyway, noinis guys, but anyway, no, it was delicious, we must go. We had oysters.
Speaker 2:I kind of want to see if I can like martinis, but I'm scared to order one because I don't want to hate it and then have ordered a drink that I hate, but you like gin. I do, but I don't really know. Is a gin martini, just gin?
Speaker 1:No, it's gin vermouth, so I don't like gin. You know this right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I tried a gin martini and was like this is good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I definitely don't want vodka, but I don't know Like is a Cosmo, a martini?
Speaker 1:Yes. But like that's like boring right, like everyone like the like cool thing is to have with the olives and the whatever. Well, so like sometimes chad will get a martini with a twist and have it be like citrusy with lemon yeah, that's more gin vibes, right yeah I prefer a super dirty, filthy, filthy, filthy, dirty martini with extra olives is that what you say?
Speaker 2:because I'm gonna feel dumb saying that I do because I love olive juice. So it's like extra, extra olive juice I would say it like that. I wouldn't be like filthy.
Speaker 1:I like a filthy, dirty ass. Vodka martini.
Speaker 2:I feel like I should do like a tasting.
Speaker 1:So what you should do is just like try someone's gin martini and see if you like it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But if we're going to do this, we should go to a place where I know they're good. Okay, that way it's like your best it's best. The odds are it's the best odds yeah because you? What is it that you scares you about a martini just too strong?
Speaker 2:yeah so that's what I always thought, but like something about it, the olive juice and sorry you're good, the coke, zeros and um cuts through yeah, I just feel like, because I've gotten before like a spirit forward drink I love the way and I, that's what it was called on the menu, and then I I understood what spirit forward meant after that, and it meant whoa on the whatever liquor it was yeah and that was disgusting to me.
Speaker 2:So I'm like I'm afraid to order a martini because I like olive juice, I like pickle juice, like someone on a podcast I was listening to said somewhere in la has a really good pickle juice martini I'm gonna need to try that immediately.
Speaker 1:Yeah, where the fuck is that I?
Speaker 2:don't know, I can't even remember which one it was, but awesome.
Speaker 1:Why isn't that a regular thing?
Speaker 2:I don't know, because I like pickle backs and a lot of people are like we don't have pickle juice or they maybe they don't want to use it for that all right.
Speaker 1:Well, I love that. Let's make that a goal before the end of the year.
Speaker 2:To get you to see if I was gonna say like if I have bartender friends, like that could be like a video that I just say make me martini, make me like small ones, so I can do a taste test.
Speaker 1:What bar is he bartending?
Speaker 2:I don't want to dox him, but I'll tell you off camera.
Speaker 1:Well, let's find out his schedule.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Or just like go to their apartment, right?
Speaker 2:yes, he could also make it, yeah but yeah, I don't know, I want to, I like want to join in on the martini trend, but I'm also like feel like a fraud and then for me, what's?
Speaker 1:I think the reason I like them too so much is it wasn't an acquired taste. Like the second, I had my first martini. I was like I get it, I understand why people drink alcohol and then this is why, but it's not something I ever will attempt to make for myself, and we had martinis when we went to cafe. Oh, that like a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bad.
Speaker 1:Oh, I didn't. They did not know what they were doing. It does matter?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't assume that's a martini heavy it's not place right.
Speaker 1:It was a yellowish green color, should have known what was in it then? I think that when I said extra dirty, they literally were just like oh no yeah but an empress oh, love empress a dirty empress martini, I think you'd.
Speaker 2:I don't think that that's the right flavors together, because Empress, like Gin in general, is so floral and I think Empress is pretty floral.
Speaker 1:Empress isn't what I meant.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:What's a common, what's a well-known gin?
Speaker 2:Well, so.
Speaker 1:I think Not, tangeray. Tangeray is one one not that's not what I'm thinking of. What's in the green bottle? It's a tangare. It's not tangare. I hate myself um, yeah no hendrix, hendrix, okay, thank you a hendrix, but there are. There's so many different versions of hendrix.
Speaker 2:There are ones that are so floral, so, like the, the OG, hendrix may be the one.
Speaker 1:I think if you're ordering it, they know Cause. When I'm with martini drinkers like Shelly, for instance, she Chad and I had vodka martinis she ordered a Hendrix, a dirty Hendrix martini.
Speaker 2:Yeah. That's what you would order yeah, there is a really um expensive hendrix one that is very floral and delish, okay, but I, yeah, I wouldn't do empress and what's the problem with you and vodka?
Speaker 1:you're making a face which is disgusting. I like like because you just like had too many barf sessions with it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just think the older I've gotten, the more it's like very hairspray to me and wow, interesting.
Speaker 1:I get what you mean by that actually yeah, I think especially as my taste buds have changed.
Speaker 2:I can drink a cocktail with vodka in it that has other things, but if I can smell it or taste it, you're not doing a shot of vodka Absolutely not. Well that's an insane ask. It's only tequila, I guess. Sometimes everyone's obsessed with fireball and my friend in the friend group, so I can kind of do fireball, even though.
Speaker 1:I don't well that's whiskey.
Speaker 2:I don't want to do shots anymore. Actually, I know I've said this before and I'm just I say I'm just I say I'm going to say no, and I fell into it.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I am like feeling a little feisty. I don't know.
Speaker 2:I like shots, I just like getting it in and over with no. Have I told you about how I think shots have ruined my life and how I can't gargle anymore?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Okay, I used to be able to gargle when I was younger, because you know, when you're sitting, my nose is so itchy to be able to gargle when I was younger, because you know when you're, my nose is so itchy. When you say gargle, you mean like, yeah, like gargling. So when I, when I was little, every time I was sick I had a sore throat my mom would be like gargle salt water and it is genius.
Speaker 2:It helps so much and helps your throat feel better. So instantly, genius, and I could do it then and even I feel like into my adult years, like I, anytime I was sick, anytime my throat hurt I would do that it would be fine. Then all I started having friends that wanted to take shots, because even in college I don't feel like my friends were like shot takers.
Speaker 1:We were like just drinkers girl you went to ball state.
Speaker 2:That cannot be true yeah, but we weren't really shots. It was like, um, we would play beer pong and it would be like beer shots or whatever, going to the bars in downtown and we were just drinking a lot.
Speaker 1:Dollar shots without any drink.
Speaker 2:I don't remember taking a lot of shots. We were just drinking a lot of drinks.
Speaker 1:I'm going to talk to Heather, go ahead.
Speaker 2:Heather and I weren't drinking together.
Speaker 1:But she went to Ball State, which is why I want to know.
Speaker 2:Yes, but we had different friend groups.
Speaker 1:Oh, so it's friend group dependent.
Speaker 2:It was. Yeah, I think my friend group was not like what were you?
Speaker 1:guys drinking Four Locos.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, yeah, yeah, same At the beginning. Yeah, we would tailgate, we would drink like wine coolers.
Speaker 1:Sourpuss.
Speaker 2:What's that?
Speaker 1:I don't know, I just learned about it, so I thought people who went to school knew what it was.
Speaker 2:I don't think so. Okay, or we would do like a vodka and like some sort of like.
Speaker 1:Lemonade or something. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:Like the most terrible things to drink ever, but it wasn't really a lot of shots.
Speaker 2:Okay, so sorry to derail you, so you would you could gargle as a teenager I could gargle or like mouthwash or whatever and then, as like my current adult friend group really likes taking shots and I really hate it. And if there's a something that happens to me, I can't just like knock it back and like do it in one swallow. It's like it goes in my mouth and I have to like tell my brain has to say swallow, and then I it's like it's like my tongue like tries to stop it because it doesn't want, like it doesn't want to be there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I actually do know what you mean.
Speaker 2:The context, of this like without, without the context. It's crazy. Yeah, yeah, but my, my body wants to reject the shock.
Speaker 1:It doesn't want to welcome it in.
Speaker 2:No. So then my brain has to say let it go, it's okay no. So then my brain has to say let it go, it's okay, swallow, oh, no. So then I think that something has happened in my brain where when I now try to gargle either mouthwash or salt water when I'm sick, I associate it with my brain thinks I'm trying to take a shot, but I'm not and I physically can't do it anymore, because you will swallow the mouthwash. Or I just like spit it up Can you still do this. Yes.
Speaker 2:I can do like swishing in my mouth, which is what I do, and I try, and it's just like really like quick and I just like I just have to do it extra long to you know, make sure that my mouth gets good, but I've ruined the shots, have ruined that for me, and it's really frustrating because now, when I'm have a sore throat, I can't even gargle salt water.
Speaker 1:You can just do this.
Speaker 2:And I've tried to retrain myself, but it's just like I'm spitting up everywhere. I don't know what to do like can someone help me?
Speaker 1:sorry, sorry to have to. I'm gonna have to when we're off.
Speaker 2:I'll try to do water and show you, but it's really bad. I cannot wait. It's so bad this is hilarious anyway, if anyone's a doctor out there and you know, if you can help me figure out how to train myself to gargle again, that'd be great.
Speaker 1:So funny, oh my God. Anyway, what else is going on?
Speaker 2:Cardi B was cleared.
Speaker 1:Cardi B was cleared, and those were the best.
Speaker 2:You started seeing the videos after I said.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Boyf and I were watching some of them over the weekend.
Speaker 2:Wild so good she created a million memes for the rest of life.
Speaker 1:We're covered.
Speaker 2:Literally For every emotion there's a Cardi meme.
Speaker 1:She's like it's a wig. So good.
Speaker 2:The one where they're like. I was 130 pounds. They're like. So you're saying she's big or whatever, and she's like she can protect the building. She's security guard big. She's security guard big.
Speaker 1:She's like I was 130 pounds. She's security guard big, he says something else and she goes. She looked like she could protect the building.
Speaker 2:Which is very nice of her to not say mean words.
Speaker 1:I mean, I can't like, that's hilarious.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:How big was the perpetrator? She looked like he could protect a building.
Speaker 2:That's what they're hired to do.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she was cleared of all assault allegations and like, obviously, yeah, this person was just trying to get money out of her, like they knew.
Speaker 1:Of course.
Speaker 2:That what they were hoping, which I love, is that. Or I love that she went to court because they were hoping she would just settle out of court, she didn't want to worry about it, or she didn't want to risk not winning and having to pay more, Like which is obviously what most celebrities do in this situation, but she was like no, I know that I didn't do anything wrong and I I got the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'll go to court.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:So she was cleared, and now what I want to talk about with you is Burning man. Do you know anyone that's ever been to Burning man? I do. I need to know more, because everything. I've ever learned about Burning man is against my will and I don't understand. I don't know what's going on over there, like. I know what coach, I know what's happening at coachella. I know what's happening at like lollapalooza these are music festivals, but like is burning man a music festival? Is it just camping? Like what what's happening over there?
Speaker 1:because I heard about a sex tent that got blown away by the winds and there it wasn't there anymore what's, what is burning man and what's going on there well, first of all, I think it is a music festival okay, what kind of music? I don't know. I feel like probably house. I know some burners, I know a few of them. Oh, there's a name I'm not trying to be disrespectful to anyone. Here's my knowledge. I just like truly do not understand what's going on I know some burners suzanna.
Speaker 1:I don't know that she ever attended burning man, but I've met people through suzanna who are burners. Okay, I went on a couple dates with a burner and real burners have burner names, like different names.
Speaker 2:So when you're there you can have a different identity, or like people in your community know you as that.
Speaker 1:It's very spiritual.
Speaker 2:Is it like drugs?
Speaker 1:I think, oh yeah, there's obviously that element to it, a lot of like meditation and stuff.
Speaker 2:But it doesn't seem peaceful to me. It's like what I don't understand.
Speaker 1:The elements seem very intense.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like I would be down for a spiritual like. I love a meditation, I love a sound bath. Like if we're going out somewhere to like have a, you know a sound bath and whatever, like I would. That's something that sounds relaxing and nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But this doesn't sound relaxing to me it does seem very intense and really I don't know much more than that. You camp, there is a sex tent, you don't have to participate and everyone I've met who goes is a really kind person. Like I've never had a bad interaction Like the guy went on a couple of dates with. It was just a little much Like he he really wanted a like a burner boyfriend to like be a part of that. It's just not. It just was. Imagine me coming to you one day, alison, and being like you will now refer to me as green tree.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm telling you have to you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's just, it's just not for me, but um, but I but again, like you said, I appreciate and recognize, understand and are cool with a lot of the practices of Burning man, but ultimately is it just a drug-fueled sex party.
Speaker 2:Yeah, is it just like a place? Because this is what it says. The point of Burning man is multifaceted. It's an annual event in a global cultural movement centered on community art-expression and self-reliance, built around a set of core principles that guide behavior and interaction. Sounds like a cult.
Speaker 1:It is not a music festival.
Speaker 2:Attendees create a temporary city, black rock city, where they collaborate to build art and experiences, reject commercialism by gifting and bartering rather than using money, and practice radical self-expression and participation. The event culminates with a ceremonial burning of the man and the temple, symbolizing the ephemeral nature of the community and the process of leaving no trace.
Speaker 2:So it's like it burns and then they leave, and it was like and diplo will perform yeah, um wow trying to see the event is an experiment in community, providing a space for people to disconnect from mainstream society and interact in new ways, free from typical judgments or hierarchies. What I'm thinking is probably it's different now than it was in, like the 90s, because now it's like people are making tiktoks right and I assume that's probably not what the point of all that was yeah, because if it's too, commercialized yeah, not yeah if it's to not, oh, be commercialized.
Speaker 2:If it's to like, not given to the man. It's like I assume that people don't want to be fueling the big ceos of the world, that's right I don't know, but I just I'm. I would to like is there enough food to go around? Can I use the restroom? Do I have to barter?
Speaker 1:For toilet paper.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just I don't think what's the quote? I don't think at this stage I'm meant for an uncomfortable life Period and it seems uncomfortable, but maybe that is just because I'm not crafty enough, because some of the TikToks I saw, like these people, had a really beautiful RV that they had restructured and made to be really pretty and comfy on the inside. I don't know how to do that.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Right, right, what did you just look up?
Speaker 1:I wanted to see who owns it, cause you know like and to me it feels like fire fest, but like I know it's not right Because, like Coachella is owned by the big bad man and people get angry and then they go yeah, okay, well, but Beyonce's performing, so I but Beyonce's performing, so I guess.
Speaker 2:I'll go.
Speaker 1:I'll go. Yeah, burning man is not owned by a single person or an entity, rather by the Burning man Project, which is a nonprofit organization. The board of directors oversees the event to ensure that organization operates for the public good rather than for profit. Kind of love, that, actually.
Speaker 2:So are there tickets? So something interesting I saw was that the line to get in was so crazy because they their head it rained and apparently the type of clay that the um desert is there. When it rains you, it gets wet, like it basically, like you get stuck in it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like clay it turns to clay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it rained and all these people had to wait for like a whole day to get in, so they were just parked in their cars in this line, and that doesn't seem fun to me.
Speaker 1:I agree. And now I'm fascinated and I want to see if there's a documentary.
Speaker 2:I want to yeah, I would like a documentary because I don't understand.
Speaker 1:June 22nd 1986 was the start of Burning man.
Speaker 2:Okay, here's some prices.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I'm curious.
Speaker 2:Ticket price the cheapest. Wait hold on Black Rock City 2025 ticket prices. Ticket price tiers enable gifting at these price points. Purchases of higher price tickets help more people experience the magic of Burning man Fund honoraria art grants and underwire Black Rock City operational costs. Yeah, because they have to have a license or something to be able to host something there, I'm assuming.
Speaker 2:So the cheapest is $550. The most expensive is $3,000. So like, the cheapest is $5.50. The most expensive is $3,000. But it says like the $3,000 ticket description says you're illuminating the playa with generosity, making really special generational magic happen. Your contribution lights the way for inclusive celebration today and into the future. So is it like you just choose which one you want to buy? I must be it. But does that get you like early entry? Or is it just like, if you're nice enough to do that, I?
Speaker 1:don't know. Thank you.
Speaker 2:I don't understand. I'm sure that does anyone like. Is this interesting to anyone else with us?
Speaker 1:I'm now really interested. I'm reading the opening on uh burning man on the wikipedia and now I want to know if there's a documentary.
Speaker 2:But anyway, if if there is, I would like to watch it and understand more films knowing full Well I know that it's not for me and I'll never be there, and that's fine.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, okay. There is a documentary called dust and illusions, a 2009 documentary about 30 years of Bernie man history from the perspective of 20 interviewees.
Speaker 2:Okay, we should watch it. We should. I will say that, since it's over, there was a. Someone did pass away.
Speaker 1:Yes, A girl right. So I want, I don't want to like um okay, I'm going to just say this while you're looking. There are three documentaries, you guys. One is called dust and illusions. It's from 2009. There's one called Taking my Parents to Burning man, a 2014 film documenting the adventures and misadventures as Brian Bosen takes his parents to their first burn and then Spark a Burning man story a 2013 documentary about Burning man, which includes behind the scenes footage and interviews with the founders, all of which I'd love to watch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want, I'm, I want to know. But this past weekend, when burning man was happening, there's this. This article is from CBS news A homicide investigation is underway after a man was found dead lying in a pool of blood at the burning man festival Saturday. A festival attendee alerted authorities to the man around 9 15 pm. About the same time the giant man effigy in the middle of the venue was starting to burn. The event held on the second to last night of the gathering which gives the annual arts and musical festival its name. When pershing county sheriff's office office deputies found the man, he was obviously deceased.
Speaker 2:The sheriff's department said that's this year yeah damn they didn't provide any other information. Although this act appears to be a singular crime, um, all participants should be aware of their surroundings, so I guess there's not much more information. They just this person was found as the like burning started.
Speaker 1:Yeah, damn.
Speaker 2:Someone died in 2023, but it was because of the severe flooding. Why so? I understand it's there, but, like, if it's like a, it seems like a issue like this whole like playa situation seems like it's a headache. Maybe we can move it to a different part of the desert. 70,000 people were stranded for several days. I actually remember hearing about this. This is 2023.
Speaker 1:Yes, and I was at the Reno airport, which is the closest airport to where this festival is, and people were freaking like they were all like returning their rental vehicles and everyone was covered in mud, All the vehicles even the humans, just like in this airport filled with dusty, dirty humans.
Speaker 2:I don't want to be dirty for days, days. I don't.
Speaker 1:Days and days.
Speaker 2:Even if I went to Coachella, I would be upset and I could pay $10 to have a private shower.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:I'm not meant to be for an uncomfortable life, that's right.
Speaker 1:No, you're not.
Speaker 2:No, I want to sleep in a bed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, me too, and that's not too much to ask. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2:No, because I have free will and I can decide that I don't need to go to these festivals. That's right, especially with house music.
Speaker 1:I that no hate?
Speaker 2:no, hate at all well, that's all the headlines that I had so I guess that means it's time for a list, a list of the week. Oh, that was cute. That was cute, all right what do you have? I've been watching Hunting Wives.
Speaker 1:This excites me because I finished it, of course.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've watched it. Josh has watched a little bit with me, but I've watched more than him, and what I have to say is the first, like two episodes. I was like there's no plot to this. It's just how many times can we get these people to kiss?
Speaker 1:and to show boobies.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And and this hour episode like how many times can we fit in sex in some way? And then I've gotten to the murder investigation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 2:And I have a theory.
Speaker 1:Do you want to share it?
Speaker 2:Are you going to give it away?
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2:Okay, right now, with the information I have, I'm working with, I think that it is the red haired girl who committed the crime. Okay, because here's where I'm trying not to spoil, but here's our suspects and who it could be.
Speaker 1:Where you're at? Do you know who the victim is? Yet?
Speaker 2:I do.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:The victim is a. Oh, I guess you don't find out until the third episode. Correct. Okay, I know who the victim is. The possible suspects are the mom of the boyfriend.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay.
Speaker 2:The boyfriend. I guess. I don't believe it's him, but possible suspect. Yeah, the red-haired girl.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:I guess Brittany Snow. We don't know for sure, because when she woke up she woke up in a weird place. Yes, I'm like why are you there? Yep, hmm, or Malin Ackerman.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Those are the five possible suspects. I or I don't. I haven't gotten to who this man is with the eye patch yet. Sure, don't know him. I guess he could be. He could be a suspect. Am I missing anything?
Speaker 1:those seem the actual answer, yeah none of those people.
Speaker 2:Are you lying?
Speaker 1:am I interesting.
Speaker 2:I just watched the funeral episode oh god there's so much more to go. Can I just say one thing? I just watched the funeral episode.
Speaker 1:Oh God, there's so much more to go. Can I just say one thing so much more death.
Speaker 2:Oh, interesting.
Speaker 1:Like the first.
Speaker 2:Well, I think I might've started the next episode after that like a few minutes, but yeah, the last full episode I watched was the funeral.
Speaker 1:It's actually crazy, you'll see interesting. Yeah, a lot of people won't be returning for season two.
Speaker 2:Let's just say okay, I am annoyed by a lot of people yeah so britney snow, by the way she's annoying me. I'm not gonna lie, I'm not gonna sugarcoat this.
Speaker 1:Her character is annoying to me, okay like you want her to just like stop, just stop yeah, why are you doing so many stupid things? Right, right. Why would no?
Speaker 2:you're right why did it take literally one time of being with these people after you had a fatal accident and you didn't drink for three years or whatever? And then you, just you, hang out with them one time and you're like I'll drink a mimosa not, and not just are you?
Speaker 1:are you to the part yet where she drives drunk with me like it's just the two of them in the pickup truck?
Speaker 2:she's like do it, has has nothing maybe I can't remember maybe she like drives and does donuts and she's like oh yes, oh yes yes, and behind the wheel literally one time of looking at this person that like, I guess you find you like you, you her attractive, obviously, but it's like you just you go, you see her one time and you hang out with this friend group one time and you're like, okay, I'm now not sober. That isn't normal behavior. Also and she's just making dumb decisions yeah.
Speaker 1:There's some wild penis shots coming up.
Speaker 2:The brother I saw, that saw that I saw that.
Speaker 1:That was so shocking it was just in such a crazy manner it was just yeah, yeah, maybe I did watch.
Speaker 2:Was that the same episode as the funeral?
Speaker 1:it is it's the end of that episode. Yes, it is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just. It feels a little like a lot of just like bad decisions. I'm mad at Malin. Is it Malin or Malin?
Speaker 1:Don't know.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm talking about though.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:How, all of a sudden, she's the one that caused all of this, she's the one that got all these people to act this way. And then her husband's running for governor and she's like don't know you. Yeah, never met you in my life. Gonna lie, gonna lie or gonna like whatever. I just like feel like it. So many bad decisions are happening.
Speaker 1:Can't wait for all the twists you're about to say.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's a good A-list of the week and I highly recommend it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm enjoying it, but I'm also like frustrated by it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it does have a pretty satisfying ending. I will say Like it leads it obviously for a second season, but you get some satisfaction.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wonder, like I'm not going to read it, but I'm wondering what the book was like.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I forgot, it was a book.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they tell us every episode.
Speaker 1:They sure do. And did you know the, the guy that played the priest there, the, the youth pastor? Oh, hate him Well he's dead in real life, so you want to take that back.
Speaker 2:you really jumped to your feelings about his character yeah, I am faster character the character is not he's problematic what I'm yeah what.
Speaker 1:He died of pancreatic cancer like six months after the show. And then in an episode they say it at the end in memory of and I was like who? And I looked it up and I was like he's younger than us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm sure he was a great guy, character's bad.
Speaker 1:The timing of that was hilarious. Well, he's dead in real life, so I thought, you were going to spoil it in the show. No, no. Why do you feel bad for that? Yeah, but crazy anyway, good recommendation yeah, my a-list of the week. I lost it. Oh no, I I do remember what it was, but it's like I always am recommending food I mean, what else is there?
Speaker 2:shows, food, drinks, places.
Speaker 1:Things to do. My A-list of the week was going to be sushi, but specifically sushi, just generally. No, just sushi, stop.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:I turned Boyf on to sushi stop. And now Hebe Craven that baked salmon roll that is good. And the blue crab hand roll. Yeah, it is good.
Speaker 2:But it isn't like the best sushi you could ever get.
Speaker 1:No, but it is good. Takeout sushi Like if you're having sushi order.
Speaker 2:Trade Cafe is good too.
Speaker 1:It is good, you're right, you're right, you're right. But we do be blowing up Sushi Stop every now and then, because they have a lot of buy when you're free, so buy when you're free. Crispy Rice, buy one, get one, free Dynamite Roll Anyway.
Speaker 2:Sounds good.
Speaker 1:Sushi Stop. If you haven't had it, have it.
Speaker 2:Is that nationwide I?
Speaker 1:don't know Where's the one. We went with Caleb and Cameron, you and me. You were like you must get here, oh Pasadena. Yeah, what is it? As if it's your favorite.
Speaker 2:I just don't remember the name, but I can tell you Was it also a blue crab hand roll there that was so good.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's just so good.
Speaker 2:It is good and you need to go to Casanori, casanori.
Speaker 1:Where is that?
Speaker 2:Studio City.
Speaker 1:Yes, you're right, it is.
Speaker 2:There's also Also. There's another one somewhere.
Speaker 1:And you need to go to the place that is his favorite, where every time we go we get free sake, because they love him so much West Hollywood. It's called West Hollywood, don't remember.
Speaker 2:I can get you the name of the one in Pasadena.
Speaker 1:Can you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just have to look on a map.
Speaker 1:Okay, Are you looking at it or? Just another time. Oh, I'll do it later. Are you looking at it, or just another time?
Speaker 2:Oh, anyway, that's my list of the week.
Speaker 1:Okay, I love that.
Speaker 2:Thanks Sushi guys, sushi guys.
Speaker 1:Happy birthday to you.
Speaker 2:If you had to guess whose birthday is today, take a wild guess.
Speaker 1:Which is what day.
Speaker 2:September.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's Katy Perry or something no. Katy Perry.
Speaker 2:No, there's not like. Let me double check. Yes, the eighth. No, there's not like a reason I'm saying this. I just thought it'd be funny for you to guess.
Speaker 1:Bill Clinton All right, give up.
Speaker 2:Um of stranger things, Gaten Matarazzo.
Speaker 1:He's Gaten Matarazzo. He's 23. Wow, they grew up so fast. They're full adults, basically senior citizens maybe they were older than.
Speaker 2:I thought they were when they were filming. How long ago was that?
Speaker 1:my god, stranger Things, my god, I was in. That was like seven apartments ago for me well, that's not saying much, I'd move nevermind yes. I'm going. I have a global entry appointment this week and I was approved, so now I'm going for the interview and as part of that, you have to put, like, your residence back five years, so I had to do all the way back to 2020.
Speaker 2:And I was like yeah, anyway, speaking of living here for a long time, on the car ride over here, I had mentioned that it rained this morning. Yeah, and josh was like what? Because he was already gone for work and it rained so hard so far away that he I was like did it not rain down there? And he was like no, he was like that's so weird and random and I was like yeah, it rained, for like I don't know, it wasn't that long, like 45 minutes an hour even less here.
Speaker 2:I feel like it was like 20 minutes of intense downpour yeah, maybe 40, I don't know, it could have been less and I I don't have the concept of time, yeah. But I was like, well, yeah, what? What did the la people say? Like, oh, we really needed this, because that's like a joke, that a meme that I see go around every time it rains a lot. And he was like, well, that came from. He was like you weren't here, but like we had like 10 years of no drought yeah.
Speaker 2:And I was like that seems crazy it was really bad yeah. And I. He was like, yeah, you didn't have to go through that, but I was like, well, you and Alex did, I guess.
Speaker 1:It was like my first year here January of 2020, january of 2011,. It was like unreal amounts of rain and then it was like it didn't rain again for like seven years.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I was like Whoa? And they were like yeah, january, this is how it always is. And then it never rained again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you guys had to like conserve your water.
Speaker 1:And then we were being charged like crazy amounts, If you're like.
Speaker 2:I was in a house at the time and like. I don't know what I would do. I take so many showers.
Speaker 1:We had a gardener service and they were like we are not allowed to do the sprinklers anymore, so our grass just turned to like yeah. Sharp pokey things you know. You know when grass gets like.
Speaker 2:Weeds.
Speaker 1:No, when it just like dries up and becomes crunchy.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, so it hurts, yeah.
Speaker 1:Anyway, yeah, drought it.
Speaker 2:It was a tough time. It was a tough time and he was like, as soon as you moved, here is when it started raining and I was like you're welcome.
Speaker 1:You and Hilary Duff brought the rain. Let the rain Okay, but yes, it'll be my 15-year anniversary on the 20th of this month.
Speaker 2:Wow, what are you going to?
Speaker 1:do Well. It's also my boyfriend anniversary, so Of what?
Speaker 2:Being in a relationship for how long?
Speaker 1:it was like six years, now three months um I was like, is it?
Speaker 2:I thought I was crazy and it had been like a year already and I was like wait what?
Speaker 1:yes, allison really does have no concept of time I have none um, it is a saturday, it's nothing to do. I was gonna try to maybe do something with angela, actually oh yeah because it's her 20th as well. 20th, it's her 15th as well, um you should.
Speaker 2:You should go to like such like a nostalgic restaurant or something that you would have gone to back then maybe she and I just go to johnny rockets in the highland center because she used to work there and we would hit that delicious yeah okay, pink is 46. All right, pink happy birthday girl. Rip avicii oh yeah, he would have been what like 35, 36 I didn't write it down, but happy birthday was kalifa 38, david arquette 54, and then many people's first crush.
Speaker 1:Many people's first crush. So, like John Stamos, am I in the right area.
Speaker 2:I mean you're in the right. Is he old now? No, he's only a little bit older than us.
Speaker 1:Oh, many people's first crush.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like people our age's first crush.
Speaker 1:Got it. Sorry, is it a Timberlake? The one and only Justin.
Speaker 2:No, think actor, wholesome actor.
Speaker 1:Oh Okay, oh, glenn.
Speaker 2:Powell Television actor. I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 1:Is it Glenn Powell?
Speaker 2:It's not.
Speaker 1:Okay. Who is it? Who is it? Glenn powell? It's not okay. Who is it? Who is it? Jonathan taylor? Thomas jtt turned what 40 44.
Speaker 2:Okay, was he. Am I wrong?
Speaker 1:like I feel like you're absolutely right, I was more of a thomas devon sawa devon, sawa yeah who else is there?
Speaker 2:like le, I guess. But even Leo is a little bit older. So I feel like those were kind of the our age first guys.
Speaker 1:And put them together, what do you get Into the Wild, no Wild America. Oh, I didn't watch that. Oh my God, what a good movie.
Speaker 2:Were they in that together?
Speaker 1:Yeah, wow, they're brothers and they go to like make a nature film and they kiss, they go to make a nature film and they encounter a bear and it's just like it's so good.
Speaker 2:Sounds like for boys.
Speaker 1:For sure for boys. For sure for gay boys, Young gay boys who don't know what gay is, but they're watching this film going how do I be them? How do I have that hair?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You can picture it right.
Speaker 2:I really can, yeah, okay, well, that's all I got.
Speaker 1:Well, everyone, thank you for watching and listening. We appreciate your support, and especially Allison, during this time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm really tired, so I appreciate it.
Speaker 1:She's sleepy.
Speaker 2:I'm a sleepy girl.
Speaker 1:Okay, have a great week. Bye the A-List.
